You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.

The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to perform the ordinary duties of one's daily life simply and naturally.

It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.

to tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country

Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude toward the Infinite Being must also in its expression have a variety of individuality ceaseless and unendi.

The heart wants to go on; that is its dharma. For unless it moves, it dies.

Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.